The way the description's written, it seems overly focused on Star Trek style action/adventure shows, when this trope is hardly limited to action/adventure stories. And, despite what the description says, I don't think it's necessary that the Main Characters be part of a large organization, either. Based on the examples, it seems like the core of the trope is that there's a peripheral or supporting character who's shown/hinted to have storylines of their own happening off-screen, which we don't see because none of our Main Characters are involved in it. But paragraphs like:

Such a character will come in handy to establish that the folks back at base are actually doing something when our heroes get captured. Though they will rarely succeed in rescuing the captured heroes, they may end up leading The Cavalry to sweep up after the Blast Out. In general, the Hero Of Another Story will be a competent professional but will lack whatever special gift or drive makes our hero so special or else act as a Supporting Leader and occupy the enemy while the main characters go after the Golden Snitch.

Agree. Something more along the lines of the entry for An Officer and a Gentleman: "if the camera started following her around, there'd be a damn good movie in there". This is a pretty good definition for the characters this trope applies to.

I was thinking maybe it is indeed Hero of Another Story and if it was, propose to merge the two.
As far as i'm concerned, that's relevant here, as the problem here is exactly because the description is unclear,
so i thought maybe knowing what we're looking at here (Hero of Another Story or Non Agonist Hero?) would help further the discussion.

That YKTTW kinda sounds like a The Same but More Specific version of this trope. Hero of Another Story is where a character isn't the star of the story we're watching, but is the star of another story that's taking place (mostly) off-screen. Two-Bit Hero sounds like it's basically the same thing, except with the provision that the Hero of Another Story be a traditional Bad AssChosen One who saves the world, while the people starring in the main story are not. I'm not sure if that's really tropeworthy, though there might be something to the idea of "epic story with huge consequences goes on in the background, while a smaller scale story takes the spotlight".

Now, all that said, where do we stand on trimming out the large organization requirement and action/adventure show specifics in the description?

if you look at the examples, it doesn't even take into account on the possibility of offscreen adventures. the character is simply The Hero who's out to kill the Bigger Bad. and his adventures are directly tied to the conflict of The Protagonist.

The usage of Hero of Another Story shows that people already know that it's supposed to be about a minor character (who is not The Hero, archetype wise or not) who gets offscreen character development or adventures as The Protagonist of his own story.

Okay, it's sounding more like Two-Bit Hero is where someone who's built up as The Hero, and has lots of traditionally heroic traits, ends up not being all that important, and other characters, who we wouldn't normally think of as being hero-material, are the ones who actually get stuff done? Is that about right?

And, yes, the current description for Hero of Another Story keeps describing it in terms specific to action/adventure shows in the vein of Star Trek. I want to rewrite it so it's applicable to all genres. There seems to be a general vibe of agreement so far, just wondering if we've had enough people weigh in on the matter to go ahead and do it.

I dropped that subject. if you still want to talk about that, see here.

as for "we already have this covered", none of those three are close. and your interpretation is completely from the left field. have you even read the examples? I know i sound scathing, but i find it pretty annoying that i cannot convey the simple concept of "The Hero is a Minor Character" in a way that is easily understandable. it is not about a plot but about a character.

anyway, what is the single proposition for this? "expand description to not limit to star trek style adventures"?

but the usage is already pretty damn broad... nobody even reads the star trek stuff in the description apparently

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